Lina Wertmüller: Lina Wertmüller. Writer: Seven Beauties. During the 1970s, Lina Wertmüller emblazoned her name into the pantheon of Italian cinema with a series of intensely polemical, deeply controversial and wonderfully entertaining films. Among the most politically outspoken and iconoclastic members of the second generation of postwar directors - the direct heirs to the neo-realists - Wertmüller was also one of the first woman directors to be internationally recognized and acclaimed. Armed...
Known For: Seven Beauties (Writer), Swept Away (Writer), The Basilisks (Writer), Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) (Writer)